Gratitude is always a choice. In any situation there is always something to be thankful for. Even if you want to lose weight...be grateful and love your body as it is right now.

1. Making Exercise Part of Your Daily Lifestyle
You may have noticed that over the last month we ran a poll asking
what your number #1 New Year's resolution was.
The results of our poll revealed that 38% of you want to exercise on
more regular basis, 32% want to lose weight, 16% want to grow
personally (spiritually), and 11% want to eat healthier.
So, based on the above results, the focus of this post will be on
helping you make exercise a regular occurrence in your daily life. After
all, the key is for exercise to be an integral component of your life. It
needs to be a lifesyle habit.
In other words, you need to put exercise into your life, not your life
into exercise!
Be Grateful for Having the Opportunity to Exercise
One of the keys to long-term success is to think of exercise as
something you GET to do not something you HAVE to do. Once you are
truly grateful for being able to move your body in any way shape or
form you will then begin to see exercise in a different light.
Love your body every moment of the way. Express gratifude for as
much as possible such as your ability to walk, breathe, move your
limbs, ride a bike, lift weight, climb stairs, run for an hour, or whatever
else you can do.
Gratitude is always a choice. In any situation there is always
something to be thankful for. Even if you want to lose weight...be
grateful and love your body as it is right now. If you don't, if you
despise your body, then you're simply transmitting a message of
disgust and discontent. As a result of these thoughts, you will only get
more of that in your life.

2. Love yourself and be grateful for where you are at and you will get to
where you want to be. Like attracts like. Love attracts love. Happiness
attracts more happiness.
Stop Whining!
Many people complain about having to workout, or finding the time to
go to the gym, or feeling too tired, or that it's too cold outside, or.....
(you get my drift).
Well, you know what? Too bad!
If you want to live a healthier life then you have to move your body no
matter what! It's not about exercising 3 times a week following a
specific program but rather finding enjoyable ways to move your body
every day of your life.
Walk you dog. Walk to the store. Run down the street. Take the stairs.
Ride your bike. Carry your groceries. Contract your muscles.
There are so many ways to stimulate movement in your body
Raise Your Standards - Change Your Identity
How good can you stand it?
How good are you allowed to feel before your sabotage your progress
and success?
Many people (including myself) don't realize that subconsciously they
are limiting themselves from a tremendous quality of life. Maybe you
think that exercising 3 times a week is good enough for you. You
might even believe that since you exercised several times this week
that you deserve to indulge in "crappy" and supposedly "yummy" food.
These are rationalizations that we tell ourselves. We like to trick

3. ourselves into believing certain things that correspond with how we
identify ourselves.
In order to truly make exercise a lifestyle thing you need to raise your
standards and identify yourself no longer as an occasional exerciser
but someone whose life is about looking and feeling vital and energetic
- all the time!
When you see yourself you will begin to take more empowering actions
including exercising more often (and enjoying it), eating healthier
more often (and enjoying it), and feeling happier. You will now be
living in integrity with who you know you were meant to be.
Don't settle for anything less than you can achieve!
Your friend and coach,
Yuri
P.S. I'm very passionate about his topic so I'll continue it in upcoming
posts.